The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-15
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delivery, but an agent solved the mystery by for
warding it to Skowhegan.
THERE is an unprecedented demand for cider
barrels in Connecticut. All the farmers except
the deacons are making cider, and the deacons
are putting'in few barrels of vinegar
The Grand Rabbi of India won first prize at
the Rothschild wedding in Paris recently for
the greatest show in diamonds. His exhibit
was worn in his turban, and was valued at $780,
600.
THE third cable within four years is about to
be laid on the bridge connecting Newport and
Cincinnati The cables are used for telephoning,
and the first two were failures because of the
constant cross talk Of induction.
THE ELECTRIC CLUB, of New York is a new
candidate for social honors in the club world of
the city. The club is social in character and
VIII nave all the ordinary accessories of social
clQb but in addition thereto it proposes to raise
the standard of electrical work and will carry
on a theoretical and practical school of instruc-
ton.
BOUQUET of iron flowers over feet high,
consisting of branch Of oak leaves with iron
acorns, surrounded by twigs of laurel and olive,
which are again enclosed by elder blossoms,
lilies of the valley 5uttercupS heliotropes, for
get-me-notS and other flowers. intersperSed
scented by the owners of the lead mine, Bis
marckshutte," to Prince Bismarck on his recent
twenty-fifth anniversary as German Minister.
AN ex-sufferer, who says he has never know n
it to fail, recommends the following treatment
for cold feet: Before you retire at night battle
your feet in water at q temperature of about 800.
Hold them in the water ten minutes. Repeat
this in the morning. The next day make the
water 50 colder, until it reaches the temperature
of 3S0. When you find you can stand that, keep
it up for fortnight or so, and you will never be
troubled with cold feet again have tried it
myself and recommended it to about 100 other
sufferers, and it has succeeded every time. It's
worth while trying"
REV. JOHN EMORY ROUNDS, principal instruc-
tor at the Centenary BibcalInstitute for Young
Colored People in Baltimore, and formerly a
prominent member of the New England Con
ference, and associate editor of Zton's Her
aid, the leading Methodist journal in the East,
has become insane, and was sent to an asylum
Tuesday last. He is a graduate of Wesleyan
University. and is just 80 years OF age. He is
one of the best linguists in the country. Some
eighty OF his students are now preaching. and
90 are teachers. He went insane on a hobby
that of establishing a university in Central
, Florida. which he fancied he could have en-
dowed for S50,0oO,000.
A CERTAIN oxford professor some years ago
was captured by brigands near Damascus but
the mild hammered benevolence of his appear
ance excited the pity of his custodians Instead
of demanding a ransom from the vice chancellor
they merely stripped their captive of his clothes,
and considerably leaving him a hat, a pair of
boots, and a pair of spectacles to cover his
nakedness, bound him on the back of an ass.
with his face to the tail, and drove him back to
the town from which he had too hastily started
Freshmen invited to meet the professor at the
breakfast table are invariably instructed by
their seniors to inquire whether he has ever been
to Damascus, and what he thinks of that great
Eastern city
IT is SAID that 100 women ride tricycles in
Washington. The smoothness of the streets
makes the work easier than it is anywhere else
Most of the women have a special costume in
the nature of a riding habit with the train cut
off. Nevertheless it takes them good while to
get over their nervousness and their self-con-
seriousness so as to really enjoy their ride. Very
few OF them ride in the daytime, although the
most proficient of them all-the Misses Gal
laudet, the daughters of the President of the
Columbia Institution for Deaf Mutes, never ride
at any other time. These young ladies ride
with perfect ease and grace They show the
possibilities of the tricycle. to perfection as they
sweep through the streets on noiseless wings.
DR.. FRANTzEL, of Berlin, reporting on the eff
fects of immoderate smoking upon the heart,
says that smoking, as a rule agrees with per
sons for many years, although by degrees cigars
of a finer flavor are chosen. But all at once,
without any assign able cause, troubles are ex-
perienced with the heart which compel the call
ing in of the doctor. Common cigars are not so
vored ones Nor can the charge be laid upon
cigarettes although they produce evils of their
own. The troubles seldom begin till after the
smoker is over 80 years of age, and most usually
attack him at between 80 and 60 While 1t has
not been determined what it is that makes
smoking injurious. it appears certain that the
effect does not d epend upon the amount of nico-
tine
AN autograph collector says that of the Presi-
dental autograph letters those of AndrewJ Jack
son are the rarest and costliest. This is because
he seldom wrote letters-never when he could
help it. The fact that his letters were often
both written and signed by proxy is known to
collectors, and paper OF this sort recently sold
for 50. a full genuine letter is worth from S25
upward WaShingtons autograph letters come
next in value and rareness Next come the let
terS OF Zachary Taylor, who wrote bad hand
and bad letter. They are worth from Sf5 to SOS
Lincoln's letters come next in rareness, and
range from SIP to $50. Grants are high-prced
not because rare, but because they are Grants
ArthurS letters are scarce. They haven't had
time to find their way into the hands of strangers
Twenty years from now they will be commoner.
THE French feet at the end of the present
year, according to the London Illustrated Ne,cs,
will comprise first class ironclads of the new
model, running II knots; II second class iron
clads, II armo-plated cruisers running TX
knots; torpedo dispatch boats running is
knots; armorp plated coast guards, of the Ton
nerre type; Q seagoing tOrpedoes, 81 first and
second class tOrpedoeS. The other vessels of
no great war utility, are 30 dispatch boats. 10
transports of the Caravanc type ~ transports
of the Annanlite type. transports of the Sarthe
type, and 46 gunboats. In 1872 the value of the
French feet was 223 0C0,000. In 1888 it will be
worth 392 0OO.000-viz: 313,000000 in ships built
and 79,OO0,OO IN ships in construction In buiId.
ing, repairing and increasing the French feet
there has been spent within i've years the snm
of 475,000,000f.
THE Ceur d'Alene Sun says: '"rhere was
sight in Buckskin Gulch yesterday that would
have made the oldest placer miners heart lean
with joy. The surface gravel had been washed
off, and the large cut in the jagged bedrock for
over lOO rect was q mass of glttering gold In
places where it had lodged in the crevices il
could be picked up by the spoonful About a
pint of nuggets, from $50 TO $50 in weight
ley, and about twenty pounds of gold had al
ready been takel to the bank, which had been
scooped out of the pot-holes. No very large
pieces had been found-the largest would proba-
bly, not go over three ounces The clean-nn
which will probably take two or three DAYS VET
to make complete, will be by far the largest
ever made in the camp 1t is estimated To
reach fifty pounds, or in the neighborhood of
$1,000" VI
In practice at the present time, the running of
electric cars, says an expert, requires no more
intelligence or skill than the running of horse
cars, and the electric current, with continuous
condrction on lines using few cars. need not
De OF such tension as to endanger human life,
500 volts being sufficient With the storage hat
terry system the tension of the current is SO low.
100 volts being sufficient, that no shock what.
ever could be experienced bV a man tal-iue,